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retroalveolar

adj

Etymology

From retro- + alveolar.

  1. borrowed from alveolus
  2. formed as alveolar — “alveolus + -ar”
  3. prefixed as retroalveolar — “retro + alveolar”

Definitions

  1. Behind an alveolus

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for retroalveolar. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA